USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

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The Emancipation Proclamation kept who from aiding the Confederacy?

(A) ** Britain

(B) Spain

(C) Latin America

(D) Mexico

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -With this Proclamation he hoped to inspire all Black people, and enslaved people in the Confederacy in particular, to support the Union cause and to keep England and France from giving political recognition and military aid to the Confederacy.

Concept note-2: -Lincoln’s intent to issue the final document on January 1, 1863, effectively prevented England, which had abolished enslavement in its own territories, from stepping into the U.S. conflict.

Concept note-3: -President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war.

Concept note-4: -The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten Confederate states still in rebellion. It also decreed that freed slaves could be enlisted in the Union Army, thereby increasing the Union’s available manpower.

Concept note-5: -The British people strongly opposed slavery. When they heard that the slaves would be freed, they gave their support immediately to President Lincoln and the North. Britain’s peace proposals were never offered. The Emancipation Proclamation had cost the South the recognition of Britain and France.